Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-04-28
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Conference TO Meet Here Next Ysar
--Dloasmx session.

O0nNENEH1EE
Closing Session.
CaKsrFR, April 20.--Ths 18th confer
ence of the Union American Methodist |
Episcopal Church for the Southern dis
trict hegan this morning in Union Church,
this city. Bishop Williams called the
meeting to order and presided, assisted by
Bishop Hutchins Of the Eastern confer
ence.
In the afternoon Bishop Williams ad.
dressed the conference on the duties OF
the members. A committee on minis
teiial relations, consisting OF Revs.
Asbury Smith, B. Truley and benjamin
Garrett, was appointed. The committee
ON Studies examined two candidates tor
the ministry and reported fayorabiy'
CHEsrpa. April 22.--The third days SEES.
sion OF the Union American Methodist
| Episcopal Church was quite interesting.
| Henry q. Weston, ID. D., president OF the
Grocer Theological Seminary, addressed the
conference In the morning. Inc preaeners
and elders were examined and their char
acters passed. Bishop Williams made an
address, and It was decided that the mis-,
| sion property at Pottsgrove, Pa, belonged
| to them. The report OF the Sabbath. school
committee, which recommended that all
local preachers, stewards, exhorters and
1
} raised big discussion. Iu the evening the
/ Rev. James II. Cook of New York preached
the conference sermon.
; AT the fourth days session of the
i | southern conference of the Union Amer.
lean Methodist Episcopal Church reports
, were received which showed a good gain
in membership. 1t was decided that next
I | ,ear's conference should be held in Will
. | mipelon, Del. The churches were ordered
10 raise money to pay for the monument
erected to the memory of the late Bishop
: John @. Ramsey. The conference electee
/ the following officers for the mission
a society: President, the Rev. E. Brown o.
!, Germantown Vice-president, the Rev
II. Mode Of Philadelphia; Secretary, O
y II. Boulder, Elkton; Assistant Secretary
> the Rev. W. H. Guy, Newark Treasurer
l. the Rev. B. I. Ruley, Wilmington an
m Steward, John w. Clemens, West Chester
y To day, the fifth of the session, wa
s spent In religious exercises and hundred
il Of colored people from Philadelphia, Wi
u mineton and West Chester were present
The Rev. B. It. Ruley preached th
70 ordination sermon this morning. Nh
d appointments were announced to-nigh
6 They are: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
"a Rev. L. A. Purnell; Chester City, Re-
william Billingsly; West Chester, Re-
AZ r. s Accoo; Coatesville, Rev. Hem
Edmunds; Middletown, Rev. Samuel An
ID brose; Columbia aud Little York ar
: oversight of Harrisburg, Rev. Stepht
- Frisbee; Penpsboro, Rev. John W. oler
as ems; New Garden, Rev. Nelson William
,s- Media, Rev. Samuel Wilmer; Pottstow
Is. Rev. $. Joseph Kingsessing; Christian
= Del, Row. Henry Mode; Somerset 81
W Mount Sinai, Rev. Charles Lewis.
ID Delaware: Wilmington, Rev. B.
rts Ruley Newark, Rev. William FL. Gu.
New Castle, Rev. Asbury Smith De-
30 ware City and Summit Bridge, Rev. Jo
L, Hood.
nd Maryland: Riley's Neck, Rev. Hen
m Groves; White Plains, Rev. D.
of Roberts Conawingo, Mt. Calvary and
- James, Rev. Charles FL. Baden.
The following appointments were ma
ng for New Jersey, now part of the Eastt
Conference Camden, Rev. Andrew
to CASTOR Bnileytown, Rev. M. L. Duff
a., Swedesboro, Rev Isaac Williams; vi
30 land and Springtown, Rev. Israel Mill